The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-06-24
NEWS ANOTHER NoTiNGs.

Governor Torres, of Sonora, Mexico, has
issued = proclamation Offering a reward Of
$500 :or the head OF each hostile Apache In.
diar
-EN Mayor DAVIS, of TascoIa. Ill. has =
saudaiil crane that gives shrilI call twenty
four hours before every storm. The crane
is 30 years old, aud has never failed in its
prophecy.
-F5Incis Patterson, better Known as
Blind" Patterson, az T mira CN. " beg
gar who lost hi5 sigrt while srrvinS in tie
rebellion. has received S13 so back pension
money. the largest amount. it Is said, evaT
allowed :" private soldier
TIE steamship. Il srmann. al Baltimore
on Wednesday from 3remez. reports that
WHEN In riri-, c-an Martin KaII-, aged a
years. while chatting pleasantly, suddenly
threw M his hands and jumped overheard.
He sank immsdiatsly.
MIR. William O'Brien. editor OF United
Ireland. arrived ~ Queenstown on the stea-
mer Adriatic. from New YORK, on Friday.
and received an ovation on leaying the vas-
SCI H- addressed an immense crowd from
tbs balcony Of the Greens Hotel.
The ancient Jews believed the age of the
raven 10 be twenty-sevsa times as great as
that nf man They also believed it 70 nave
been originally white and to have been
turned black in Consequence of it, deceitful
ccnduct.
On Decoration day the Manhattan E'e
waited Hallway. New York, carried 57I.4l2
passengers, OF Il 600 more than ever bsfore
in one day, and TIE receipts were s28. 80.
The average daily passengers for the three
months ending March 81 were nearly 43o 900
including Sundays.
a mob OF fifty persons broke into the
jail ct Lsouardtown, Nd. last Friday and
took therefrom and hanged TO tree Ben
danca, aged Is years, coioTed, charged a,!th
attempting fel0nious assault upon Ailee
Baily, white, living in the lower part O! St
MsTv's county.
-Rh5umatISm is said 10 be the fen de-
strcssr OF the elephant. Although heir 20
a number of diseases. it is more commonly
succUmbs 10 this than any other Bronchial
affections are peculiar to the ape family. and
the cat family suffers principally from dis
eases of the in:es,ines.
-Hailstones, pointed and weighing over a
pound each. are reported to have recently
fallen in the districts ot Altos and Carnabatt.
between AdrianOpla ami Shumla, on the
south slope OF the Balkan Mountains. East
ern Roumelia. They destroyed the haryests
and killed many laborers aud cattle in the
fields
a team OF horses took fright in Freeport
Saturday afternoon and ran away. One of
the animals got his foot caught in an iron
picket fence, and William Shut, q black
smith, cni -ayored 70 free the limb The
hors= kicked him in the face, rlakiug q ter
ribie wound, breaking his nose, knocking
out bali doz Il teeth, and shattering his Jaw.
I e steamer Champlain was burned to
The waters edge of CLar!eviox, Mich. about
midnight OIL Friday last There were only
six passengers on the boat and the ere "
consisted oi from twelve to eighteen hands.
Eight or ten persons were drowned In at
tempting TO swim ashore from the burning
boat. The ChampIai8 left Chicago for the
North last Tuesday
AT /: 30 on last Saturday morning 10
masked men stopped the passenger train on
the Galveston, Harrisburg and San A ntonio
Railroad, near Schuelenburg, robbed the
passengers of their vaIuables and rlfled the
express car. The booty secured was not
less than S15, 900. The express messenger
angsIed the robbers and they cruelty beat
him and spi- ais ears with pocket knives
= lew days since mule belonging to
). B. Scott, Dt Americus, Ga, stretched
himself On the ground, and 10 all appear
ances died A chain was put around the
animal neck, and he was dragged two
miles TO the woods and left to the care OF
the buzzards. Next morning Mr.. Scott was
astonished To find the dead mule alive and
cheerful, standing az the gate waiting to be
fed.
Tine village Of Washburn, WoodforG
county, H., was wiped out by fire early last
Friday morning. Seventeen OF the business
houses were completely destroyed. The
fire originated in II J. Peise's store, and,
as the village had no fire protection what
ever. everything was burned. The loss ap-
pEoXimates $4,000. upon which there is
about $40 600 Insurance. The fire is sup
posed TO De OF incendiary origin
The American Board of Foreign Mis-.
sions have recently received news of
terrible famine Ia Asia Minor The harvest
time has passed. but not a single sheaf of
grain will BE- cut in all the plain originally
so fertile, save in few arJifcialy watered.
The dronth has been the worst for centuries.
Eighty thousand inhabitants are destitute
and must starve if help is not brought from
without.
AT the sale of Lord Crawford's library
at London, on Wednesday of last week.
Gutenberg Bible, the earliest book printed
with movable metal types in the original
Cak boards. was put up at $3.50 and was
sold for e2,65O. Tyndale's Penta teuch in
black letter brought e255. and rYndale's
New Testament. in black LETT sr, e23O.
Miles Coverdale's Bible, in Eng ish black
letter. with wood cuts, folio. the first Eng
lish Bible printed, brought e225
"A farmer living near Grand Rapids had
a 1-year old colt which is quite freak, and
which the farmer sold for S25. The colts
back is bumped like that of camel, and it
has the staggering walk and general appear
ance of that animal. The owner said that
few months before the colt was foaled Its
mother became frightened at a camel in a
circus procession and ran away, and the
effect of the fright is thus plainly shown by
the offspring.
Mrs. BrannOn, row residing at Mounds
Vile. W. Va, is the only woman in the
United States who is the mother of thirty
three children by one husband. Her age is
seventy-seven and she is hale and hearty.
OF these thirty three, twenty FIVE are boys
and eight are girls. Sixteen boys were in
the Union army fpnrtean of ,-born ra 5r,,r